Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 14 February 2023.
Industry body, Coach and Bus Association Cymru, has said the risk to services and jobs without continuity of funding has only been delayed. They are predicting cuts in bus services ranging from two thirds to mass deregistration of all routes. That would mean people across Wales suddenly unable to go to work, to shop, to go to hospital, to go to college and school. As the chief executive of Neath Port Talbot Council, Karen Jones, has said, it is perverse that Welsh Government are striving to deliver sustainable travel, with the public encouraged to rely less on private transport, yet funding decisions, such as proposed here, will force more people to travel by car, compromising the policy objective. Can you explain the logic in your proposal?